There will be two big franchises for Paramount’s 2028 holiday season: an untitled live-action hybrid Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles film scheduled for November 17 in three years and one Sonic universe feature scheduled for December 22.
Regarding Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, It opens the weekend before Thanksgiving. The project was previously announced with Neal H. Moritz producing. Under Paramount, the three Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles the films (two live-action, one animated) grossed nearly $913 million worldwide. The brand alone has generated $1 billion in retail sales for Paramount in calendar year 2023, as Deadline first told you.
THE Sonic The universe film will be produced by Moritz’s Original Film and SEGA Sammy Group. Last year, before Christmas, Paramount opened Sonic the Hedgehog 3 at No. 1 with $60.1 million nationally. The film grossed $236.1 million in the United States and $492.1 million worldwide. All inclusive, the Sonic The trilogy for Paramount grossed $1.2 billion. There was also a Joins spin-off series for Paramount+ which, in its first 28 days on the streamer, logged over 11 million hours worldwide and ranked as the number one Paramount+ kids and family series in terms of hours.
Paramount also dated the 40th anniversary cut of Tony Scott’s film today. Top Gun on May 13, 2026. The Tom Cruise movie that started it all has grossed more than $180 million domestically and $357 million worldwide. The 2022 sequel will become both Tom Cruise and Paramount’s highest-grossing film of all time, grossing nearly $719 million domestically and $1.495 billion worldwide.
